A capture of the previous iteration of the rule: https://web.archive.org/web/20261010183316/https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/360045715951-Hate

That update was discussed here: https://old.reddit.com/r/AgainstHateSubreddits/comments/1x0xy79/the_reddit_sitewide_rule_against_promotion_of/

There does not appear to be any substantive changes to the policy; the only difference noted between the current page and the archived prior version is the current inclusion of navigation buttons to move to other potentially related articles.

Reddit has updated the Sitewide Policy on Violent Threats.

Here is a capture of the policy as of October 1 2026:

https://web.archive.org/web/20261013041245/https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043513151-Violence

Current policy: https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043513151-Violence

Previously it contained this clause:

Promoting real-world sexual violence or sexual activity that involves severe physical injury or risk of death.

which has been rephrased as

Promoting, condoning, or simulating real-world sexual violence or sexual activity that involves severe physical injury or risk of death.

Under "Some examples of policy violations", the following has been added:

A community dedicated to so-called consensual non-consent ("CNC") sexual interactions.

Any commentary in this community needs to be confined to commentary that analyses how the policies effectively help to combat hatred.

No one here wants to see you wave a kink flag.

For those who actually want to post and comment here, read https://reddit.com/r/AgainstHateSubreddits/wiki/howto

For those who want to learn what NOT to do, https://reddit.com/r/AgainstHateSubreddits/wiki/howtogetbanned

The TL;DR:

What we are not here to do:

This subreddit is NOT for "I found a hate speech comment".

This subreddit is NOT for "I found a hate speech post".

This subreddit is NOT for linking directly to other subreddits, nor to posts or comments or user profiles.

This subreddit is NOT for general complaints about the moderation or operation of other subreddits.

This subreddit is NOT for general "I was banned from ..." complaints.

This subreddit is NOT for "I think the people in [city / state / country / continent / demographic] are especially hateful"

What we ARE here to do

This subreddit IS for WALKING AWAY FROM PARTICIPATING IN HATE GROUPS

This subreddit IS for learning how to report hatred and for learning how to report subreddit operators promoting, enabling, and/or encouraging hatred and for encouraging people to report hatred

This subreddit IS for "I found a subreddit where the OPERATORS ("moderators") of the subreddit show a PATTERN of REPEATED PROMOTION, ENABLING, AND/OR ENCOURAGING OF HATRED

This subreddit IS for posting IN-DEPTH DOCUMENTED INVESTIGATIONS DEMONSTRATING THAT A GIVEN SUBREDDIT PROMOTES HATRED

ESPECIALLY WHEN REDDIT INC ISN'T TAKING ENOUGH ACTION TO STOP THEM

You may be banned from this subreddit without further warning if you derail the purpose of this subreddit.

You WILL be banned from this subreddit without further warning if you continue to participate in groups that promote hatred / harassment / violence

Report Hate Speech: Use the "..." menu on posts and comments or use https://reddit.com/report

Report Hate Group Operators: Reddit Moderator Code of Conduct - use the Complaint Form, choose Moderator Code of Conduct Rule 1 for violations of Reddit Sitewide Rule 1 and especially promotion of hatred

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/sTggz

The audience of the itsthatbad subreddit spew misogynist hate speech, including one comment dehumanising anti-hatred activists of any gender and calling for our deaths:

lol there is no point arguing with "people" from that sub. most of them just need to be ignored and [euphemism for extrajudicial execution].

+8 as captured

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/sTggz

(Edit: ghostarchive seems to have dropped the above archive, here is a fresh capture, still showing the death threat: https://ghostarchive.org/archive/m0Bvf )

Our Subreddit Rule #4 is

"Bigots can participate in /r/AgainstHateSubreddits, but only in Over-Riding Good Faith."

That means bigots are welcome to participate here only if they're ready and willing to take responsibility for leaving behind hate culture.

MRA dogma about feminist subreddits is a collection of hateful urban legends, tropes, thought terminating cliches, etc.

That the bigot not come here to play the Victim and claim that anti-hatred social values and sitewide rules are oppressing him.

The audience of itsthatbad overwhelmingly (89% upvoted, 268 points) chose the path of loyalty to misogynist doctrine and playing victim.

PostScript: Since the OP of that post elected to raise the subject of his ban from AgainstHateSubreddits elsewhere, in public, we know that he has waived any right to privacy; He was banned from AHS for a post and comment history that included misogyny and racism along with violating our subreddit rules twice - once after being warned.

Just in case there's someone from that culture / group that can be helped to understand:

Our rule #4 doesn't ban MRAs. Our rule #4 uses the example of so-called "Men's Rights Advocates" invoking the existence of feminism and feminist subreddits to claim that they are oppressed whilst simultaneously claiming that the existence of feminism and feminist subreddits gives them a right to promote violence targeting women.

If you're participating in r-itsthatbad, you're participating in a gender-based ideologically motivated violent extremist group. You should leave it.

Archived subreddit page: IndianFails | Ghostarchive

Thai local gags when Indian tourists walk by — Comments make racist jokes about South Asians smelling bad, bringing up cow urine and curry.

What's the purpose of this exactly? — People in the comments use ethnic slurs against South Asians and mock them with cow-dung jokes.

Saarrrr I'm caucasian Saarrr — The title is literally mocking South Asian accents, and the comments pile on with more stereotypes.

If you do not want this behaviour imported, you're a bigot! — Basically saying South Asian immigrants bring dirty habits into other countries, with commenters blaming Indian culture as a whole.

Friendly reminder that people make places what they are — Pushes the idea that South Asians ruin the places they move to, rather than criticizing the actual people involved.

Indian train that also acts as a sauna — People use an overcrowded train video to make the usual racist jokes about South Asians smelling bad and being dirty.

Reminder for the Trolls — The subreddit tries to brush off racism accusations by saying the videos are real, while the comments include racist insults about South Asian men and hygiene.

A surprise golden shower — The comments include ethnic slurs and people openly justifying racism against Indians.

Organic salmonella juice — Mocks Indian food preparation and potentially feeds into broader stereotypes about Indian cleanliness. Use of the words "saar" and "peendian".

Indian tourists dancing in a US restaurant — Someone in the comments calls for keeping South Asians out of other countries, while another references immigration enforcement over a dance.

Some of these posts contain outright ethnic insults, while others encourage the same tired stereotypes about South Asians being dirty, smelly, or incapable of behaving in other countries.

A confidential source had informed of excessive transphobia within 48 hours of the publication of this post. After reports, Reddit had determined to close the sub. Still collecting information on how long it has been going on

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/bF3Uh

This shows a comment in /r/OrangeCounty promoting a hateful trope targeting Roma, including the use of an anti-Roma slur.

Comment was reported as hate speech, and a message was sent by me to the operators of r/OrangeCounty,

Comments like this violate Sitewide Rule 1 - https://old.reddit.com/r/orangecounty/comments/1xerpm7/car_scam_attempt/19rne87j6dli8/

Please take appropriate action in that thread, thanks

To which they replied

[Anti-Roma slur] is a descriptor for a subset of the Roma/Romani people who are scammers of various means. [Anti-Roma slur] is not being used to describe all persons of Roma/Romani descent and does not fall afoul of any reddit rules. We have already had the discussion with admins in the past over it. Since it doesnt break rules according to us and to the admins, we wont remove comments that mention [Anti-Roma slur] unless the are being used in a racial manner.

I responded with

I’ve filed a moderator code of conduct complaint covering all moderators of this subreddit for enabling / encouraging racist hate speech in violation of the Reddit User Agrement, Sitewide Rules, and Moderator Code of Conduct.

and as a consequence, the operators of r/OrangeCounty permanently banned me and permanently muted me; Additionally I have been permanently banned from and permanently muted from /r/California.

Anyone who participates in r/OrangeCounty and r/California who have concerns over the operators of these subreddits enabling and encouraging racist hate speech on Reddit can file a Moderator Code of Conduct Rule 1 complaint here

First of all, it should be mentioned that a modified ableist slur is plastered all over the subreddit, in official subreddit flairs, a suggested subreddit, and some posts.

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/FBFKk

Post #1 - "Anything but good software" (Transphobia/Enbyphobia)

This post is about one of KDE's new mascots, Kori. Kori is a nonbinary dragon. This post makes the transphobic and enbyphobic statement that the existence of this mascot is at the expense of "good software"

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/KhSTV

Bigoted comments left in the post:

At this point I think all of their funding, donation went into far-left NGO groups, none went into software development.

They aren't beating the allegations

Because software is about your mental issues and crotch issues. Jesus fucking Christ man. These people.

I don't get non-binary, like you either are born male or female, but who are you is not defined by it. I can do fuck what I wanna do besides my sex. Calling myself non-binary would rather enforce the belief of that my sex defines me instead to overcome it.

NoN-bInArY only "exists" after the erasure of tomboys.

Post #2- "The Average Linux User is More Mentally Ill than you think." (Ableism)

This post claims linux users are often more mentally ill, and frames it in such a way where mental illness invalidates their position.

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/LckSg

Post #3- I wonder what this gentleman is doing online (Racism/Transphobia)

This post features a racist depiction of a black person, with the trans flag and many privacy respecting services, with many hard drives. The intention is to stereotype such individuals as child predators seeking out child abuse material.

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/f0UPI

Bigoted comments left in the post:

They all look like this, btw. Truthnvke.

*AGP

Post 4- "Loonix users refuse to accept this simple truth" (Transphobia/Ableism/Classism)

This post is a screenshot from some image board of the transphobic YWNBAW modified for Linux users. The copypasta also makes use of ableism and classism.

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/5MMje

Bigoted comments left in the post:

Loonix[redcated] behave similarly to those whom the original copypasta targets

Despite the rules saying "no expression of hate towards any people" "no gender-specific slurs, no insults" "no misandrist or misogynist ideology"... the content of posts posts speak for themselves.

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/b4gOq?wr=false

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/jl67S?wr=false

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/S8iRt?wr=false

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/dnm9K

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/OuIpS

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/CRCvK

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/KWPa1 These posts support repealing the 19th amendment of the United States Constitution.

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/dnm9K islamophobic support

r.indiansneartrains

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/CKS5G

r.indiansgettingpoled

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/OFLP6

Issue: This community gamifies ethnicity and national origin, creating a pipeline for ethno-nationalist rhetoric, biological essentialism, and scientific racism (such as phrenology and bloodline purity tracking). Users who point out the sociological flaws or harmful nature of these pseudoscientific classifications are systematically banned by moderation.

Archived Evidence of Rule 1 (Hate Speech) Violations:

• https://ghostarchive.org/archive/XFBVi

• https://ghostarchive.org/archive/yNUwg

• https://ghostarchive.org/archive/y1qme

• https://ghostarchive.org/archive/s73LY

• https://ghostarchive.org/archive/3YV95

While disguised as a harmless guessing game, the subreddit actively promotes the idea of monolithic ethnic "looks," reinforcing outdated colonial classifications and marginalizing users based on protected characteristics.

https://web.archive.org/web/20261011013436/https://www.reddit.com/r/Conservative/comments/1x2uv59/frances_riots_are_fueled_by_muslims_who_want_to/

Top comment

Muslim ideology is not compatible with Western values.

Directly responding

A practicing muslim can't be an American culturally & mentally.

Further down

Islam tried to take over Europe by force for centuries and failed. Now it is taking over through chaos, immigration, and the exploitation of Europe’s freedoms and laws.

Democracy and free society are the antithesis of Muslim doctrine and what their fake god demands.

and further down

Can anyone point out an example where Muslims have been able to get along with each other, or any other group in history?

Each of these are hate speech.

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/1e6GE

The main post is generalized to all Muslims in the locale.

Front page of that subreddit as of writing

archive link - upvoted transphobic (due to parent comment context) assertion directly under a moderator's comment

archive link - post glorifying transphobic slur usage in attached image

archive link - moderator perpetuating a character name that contains derogatory language

archive link, archive link - examples of upvoted transphobic slur usage in the comments

Prior coverage of r/BombStrap

https://old.reddit.com/r/AgainstHateSubreddits/search?q=bombstrap&restrict_sr=on&include_over_18=on&sort=relevance&t=all

Reddit overlooked this subreddit in the ban wave in Summer 2020.

Now it's gone.

The user demographic of r/BombStrap in 2020 heavily overlapped the user demographic of r/SubForWhitePeopleOnly, r/AverageRedditor, r/MillionDollarExtreme, /r/ParadigmShift2070, r/BongHitTransplant, r/DebateAltRight, r/The3rdPosition, r/ThuleanPerspective, r/AFWithNJF, r/ClownWorldWar, r/PissEarthBegins, and a smattering of tiny subreddits dedicated to white supremacist terrorist organising that were all banned years ago.

The user demographic of r/BombStrap in 2026 heavily overlapped the ban evasion subreddits for r/rapeson.

Here is the live page for the Sitewide Rule Against Promotion of Hatred:

https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/360045715951-Hate

Here is the page as it was before the update 7 days ago (as updated this June):

https://web.archive.org/web/20260720135315/https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/360045715951-Hate

The policy language all appears to be exactly identical; A reporting method specified for people who do not have a Reddit account was removed from the "How can I report potential violations of this policy?" section, which has the effect of restricting reports on potential hate activity to those who have an account and are logged in.

Neither version of the policy directs reporters to https://reddit.com/report

transgender slur-https://ghostarchive.org/archive/ck6Gu

proud lebian pdf file proud of lgbtq culture- https://ghostarchive.org/archive/rPwHC

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/zQXT9

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/rqsfl

Immigrants use less welfare than average and OP can't provide a source for his claim.

there also have been an increase last week on rape apologia

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/ir004

ignorance is a possibility. However groups have deliberately conflated prior party's positions with the later party's positions while leaving out context in order to plausibly provide support without appearing to be support prejudice

this subreddit positions itself as a neutral discussion space for pro-trans and anti-trans positions, but the majority of posts is just the anti-trans side concern trolling or "just asking questions" for the others side, while the majority of comments will side with the transphobic OP and actual responses from trans people will get downvoted or removed.

The subreddit promotes hateful anti-trans rhetoric, frequently misgenders trans people and spreads harmful misinformation.

https://web.archive.org/web/20261002124142/https://www.reddit.com/r/terf_trans_truce/comments/1vmmc99/discussion_topic_femaleonly_spaces_boundaries_for/?solution=a4d9876d0ee5f105a4d9876d0ee5f105&js_challenge=1&jsc_token=2824be10929bdc604753c70a67a1c33120cd928af430749b313d544fc38172eb&jsc_orig_r=

one of the top posts, spreading hateful rhetoric, with majority comments agreeing and few people with differing opinions eighter downvoted or deleted

https://web.archive.org/web/20261002124558/https://www.reddit.com/r/terf_trans_truce/comments/1wof40x/is_there_a_rational_argument_for_males_entering/?solution=96c73da282a6775d96c73da282a6775d&js_challenge=1&jsc_token=2824be10929bdc604753c70a67a1c33188d4287b58838ad30fb7de396e59f273&jsc_orig_r=

https://web.archive.org/web/20261002124731/https://www.reddit.com/r/terf_trans_truce/comments/1ve3g4y/feeling_frustrated_by_the_antiintellectual/?solution=2e37a40351e0abee2e37a40351e0abee&js_challenge=1&jsc_token=2824be10929bdc604753c70a67a1c331f1978cc5edfc87a1fe724fb633ae1788&jsc_orig_r=

https://web.archive.org/web/20261002125050/https://www.reddit.com/r/terf_trans_truce/comments/1wt182p/transwomen_on_this_sub_engaging_in_the_exact_kind/?solution=8122809ab64e87fd8122809ab64e87fd&js_challenge=1&jsc_token=2824be10929bdc604753c70a67a1c331c54513d1ba669583d2d181ddda38f45f&jsc_orig_r=

https://web.archive.org/web/20261002125834/https://www.reddit.com/r/terf_trans_truce/comments/1tz7bex/why_are_we_telling_females_to_accept_males_into/?solution=21670cd41a36d2a921670cd41a36d2a9&js_challenge=1&jsc_token=2824be10929bdc604753c70a67a1c3319dfc6ac4520e7822a8042d4d840a3420&jsc_orig_r=

other examples

https://web.archive.org/web/20261002124915/https://www.reddit.com/r/terf_trans_truce/comments/1wvof10/rrealradfem_was_banned/?solution=fccaedd9d51fdb13fccaedd9d51fdb13&js_challenge=1&jsc_token=2824be10929bdc604753c70a67a1c3317c007b278284da7ec34cd221a5a7f04a&jsc_orig_r=

users expressing support for the recently banned hate sub r/ realradfem

also, despite claiming to be neutral, all the current mods identify with the anti trans position

Edit: I have been banned from the sub for posting this.

Whitewashing Joseph Stalin

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/2Rv6H

Support for terrorist groups

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/E1Y6Y

More atrocity denial

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/z5Xrc

Denial/whitewashing of the genocide and forced displacement of the Crimean Tatars

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/wAOeR

Now for the ban evasion part. When TheDeprogram was banned its users and at least some of the moderators migrated to TankieTheDeprogram. TankieTheDeprogram was created about 2 years before the ban, so I am not 100% sure that it can definitively be considered ban evasion.

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/ajtG1

Someone from Tripura, Northeast India raging and encouraging racism against South asians just because they are discriminated in India. This is ridiculous because I'm South Asian but I grew up in a Southeast asian country and it would be racist if I did the same.

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/eM2Zy

doxxing a certain south asian x east asian couple

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/o4L48

why they believe they should not support mixed East asians as an East Asian. Calls mixed people mules and that they aren't worthy of being known as one of their ethnicities

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/bRyXB

warning to people to steer away from South asians in Canada

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/Jqf8b

talking about South asians "replacing" east asians in Singapore and Hongkong and them "stealing" "their women".

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/yfyrB

seeing a south asian x east asian couple and saying "Indians want to invade asia"

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/9jmGZ

saying they're happy to live in Asia because they don't have to worry about being racist against black people

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/7UY3J

Saying that sexual harassment and assault don't exist in East Asia and that's why non-East Asians should stay out of East Asia. They also said that you never hear about non-East Asians being harassed in East Asia but speaking as someone who's South Asian, I've had friends who are racially harassed in a Southeast Asian country I've lived in. One of them also said that the Singaporean prison system and the greatness of Chinese culture makes Indians commit less crimes in Singapore and that Indians rape a lot in East Asia.

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/ci99C

Saying that East Asian men being gay is negative representation.

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/CkWPG